Among today’s topics on This Week, fill-in host Jonathan Karl brought up the GOP reboot efforts, citing a New York Times Magazine story asking whether the GOP can be “saved from obsolescence.” Newt Gingrich weighed in, agreeing that the technology discrepancy is a real issue — and drawing an unflattering comparison between Republicans and Democrats.

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“Romney’s senior strategist, Stuart Stevens,” the NYT story notes, “may well be remembered by historians, as one House Republican senior staff member put it to me, ‘as the last guy to run a presidential campaign who never tweeted.'”

Stevens himself said that if the issue was simply technology, that would be great. It’s something you can simply go purchase. But “we don’t have 140-character problem in the Republican Party,” he said. “We have a larger problem that we have to look at and be patient about it.”

Gingrich saw things differently. “The technology problem is a culture problem,” he said, noting that Democrats “were using the most advanced decision

processes in the country.” They “were trying to figure out, how do you talk to 311 million people and do so in a way that you can survive 8 percent unemployment and get re-elected.”

And it worked.

“They are a Super Bowl team that we ought to respect deeply, and we are currently a mid-level college team floundering around,” Gingrich observed. “This is a fundamental re-thinking on how you relate to the American people.”

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